Marianne Faithfull plus Special Guests, The Barbican, London, 10 March. 2002

Set List: Guilt / Why D'ya Do It ? / Sliding Through Life on Charm 

Jarvis, Steve, Mark and Marc Ribot accompanied Marianne Faithfull at her concert to promote her new album Kissin Time.  Reviews were mixed (to say the least):

Marianne Faithfull was pretty awful and how she could murder such a song as Beck's 'Nobody's Fault But My Own' I just don't know..... We decided it was definitely the worst concert we'd ever been to but other people seemed to enjoy it so it's probably a matter of taste... (Roz leach)

Pure torture... the tart can't sing... just when we thought it couldn't get any worse it did.. she started doing a Very Bad Cover Version of Beck's Nobody's Fault But My Own... that's exactly what I was thinking.. nobody' s fault but my own sitting through this... only good thing was when Mark, Steve and Jarv got onstage the music was almost louder than her singing.. (Mark was rocking away in his chair and his foot and sometimes even his upper body was moving!!!)... As for dreadful Marianne, well..  I hope Jarvis didn't get much of a fee for it seeing as he only used two fingers on his right hand a few times, twiddled with some knobs and .... wait for ... pushed the on/off button for the pre-recorded backing track for Sliding Through Life on Charm........highlight of the night before the concert Brian Molko decided to stand in front of us with no make-up EEEEK!!... we gazed at his growing bald spot as well.. (Heike Seidler)

Just to let you know that Marianne Faithful was pretty good last night - much better than I'd have imagined her to be. Jarvis, Mark & Steve played Sliding... plus a couple of other Marianne songs. I must say that Mark was particularly brill and was really getting into it (though was playing sitting down in a way that only Mark could get away with!) Good on him! Jarvis was playing a keyboard and tweaking around on a Roland sampling unit. Must say it's very weird seeing him shaking his bits behind a eyboard stack (if you know what I mean!)  (Giles Bosworth)